Display case and dispenser of canned and packaged supplies



w. E. TAYLOR 2,124,500

DISPLAY CASE AND DISPENSER 0F CANNED AND PACKAGED SUPPLIES July 19, 1938.

Filed llarch 23. 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INV ENTOR ATTORNEY July 19, 1938. w. E. TAYLOR v 2,124,500

DISPLAY CASE AND DISPENSER OF CANNED AND PACKAGED SUPPLIES Filed March 25. 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INV ENTOR ATTORNEY Patented July 19, 1938 I 2 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISPLAY CASE AND DISPENSER OF CANNED AND PACKAGED SUPPLIES Waldo Edwin Taylor, Randolph Field, Tex. Application March 23,1936; Serial No. 70,500 1 Claim. (Cl. 312-48) This invention relates to dispensers for packcanned goods. The article engaging elements 9 aged or canned supplies and has for the primary and ID are rotatably supported so that the packnumber of articles dispensed, besides it will clearmounted on supporting rods 52 secured to op ly display the kind of articles offered for sale by posite sides of the housing. The walls H may the device. be adjusted towards and from each other and With these and other objects in view, this inform sides for superimposed chutes 13. To comvention consists in certain novel features of conplete the chutes 13 by cooperating with the side struction, combination and arrangement of parts walls are inclined bottom walls i4 suitably se to be hereinafter more fully described and cured to the housing The bottom walls M in claimed. cline in the direction of the front wall of the For a complete understanding of my invention, housing and the lowermost chute aligns with reference is to be had to the following descripthe discharge opening 6. The bottom walls of tion and accompanying drawings, in which the chutes above the lowermost chute each in- Figure l is a front elevation illustrating a disclude pivotally mounted sections l5, the purpose pensing device constructed in accordance with of which is to perntit articles in the chutes army invention. ranged above the lowermost chute to feed into Figure 2 is a sectional view taken. on the line the letter on the :rhausting of articles in the 22 of Figure 1. lower chute. .e ctions 55 are capable of Figure 3 is a sectional view ta on the line swinging downward-i when unsupported by the of Figure 1. articles the chute therebelow. The chutes may Figure 4 is a fragmentary vertical sectional be readily filled througha doorway in the rear view illustrating the means for dispensing articles wall of the housing and which is normally closed from the device, also showing the coin control by a hinged door it. The walls it being admechanism therefor and the means of displayjustably mounted permits the widths of the chutes ing one of the articles so that the purchaser may to be varied so as to accommodate packaged or contains for sale. wall of the compartment 8 forms an abutment Figure 5 is a detail sectional view taken on the for the lower ends of the chutes arranged above line 5 5 of Figure 2. the lowermost chute which will prevent articles Figure 6 is a fragmentary vertical sectional in the chutes above the lowermost chute from view illustrating the gate for the control ofthe gravitating therefrom. articles from the dispensing device. The gate 1 is of cylindrical formation and is Referring in detail to the drawings, the nujournaled to the front wall at the discharge openmeral l indicates a suitable housing, the front ing 6 so as to protrude partly into the housing.

elements 9 ,and 10. The article engaging elegate is provided with a notch 20 to be engaged ments 9 and H) are similarly constructed to reby a, holding lever 2|.when the gate is in article celve therein the ends of either packaged or receiving position, as shown in Figure 4. The

holding lever is pivotally mounted to the housferred to briefly herein for the purpose of showing as shown at 22, and is acted upon by a spring ing an operative arrangement for the releasing 23 for forcing one end in a position to engage of the holding lever from the notch of the gate.

with the notch. The holding lever when in en- A device of the character described is simple in 5 gagement with said notch will prevent manual construction and operation and will provide max- 5 movement of the gate into dispensing position. imum storage for either canned or packaged arti- The other end of the holding lever is associated cles and will efiectively display the kind of artiwith a coin chute i i, the entrance of which is cles and will occupy a minimum space within a indicated at 25, and is located in the front wall store or like place and its use will materially reof the h in T mov men of a coin hrou h duce operating costs of the store in that purchasl0 the chute is interrupted by a manually actuated ers may easily obtain articles simply by the payslide 26, one end of which projects beyond the ment of a proper coin into the device which refrom Wall Of the housing so as to be ped for duces the number of salesmen or clerks required the P p Of Permitting the co n to pass fully for the conducting of the storeand renders maxthrough the chute and at the same time to rock imum convenience to the purchasers as they do 15 the holding lever to disengage the latter from not have to wait for the service of a clerk or the notch oi the gate whereby said gate will be salesman in order to purchase their wants. free for manual manipulation o dispensing Having described the invention, 1 claim:

' Position A projection 27 s formed on the g 1 A dispensing device comprising a housing havand contacts an ac uating member 28 of the ing a discharge opening, means for controlling 20 counter 5 each time the gate is moved into disaid o ening, a plurality of superposed parallel pensing position, As soon as the gate is manuchutes, including a, pair of vertically disposed y released from dispensing p sition, the spring. parallel side walls, a plurality of superposed bot-' l8 returns the same to article receiving position t ll di s d betw e the side walls, a

n th h ldin l v r h immediately engages plurality of screw threaded rods passing through 25 the notch l k n the ld n gate against m v said side walls and secured to opposite sides of ment into dispensing position until the depositthe housing, for moving the side walls towards ins of a co in the chute and the actuation of and from the bottom walls, and a plurality of the Slide The Slide 26 forms no part o this nuts threaded on said rods and attached to said 30 present invention nor the coin chute and is mereside 11 30 1y indicated generally in the drawings and re- WALDO EDWIN TAYLOR. 

